In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament & Codicil of Coffin

Ketcham, S.

It cannot be questioned that the will and codicil here propounded were duly executed, nor is it doubtful that the testator was possessed of testamentary capacity; but it is urged that the instruments were induced by the undue influence of the sole beneficiary named in the will.

The testator, for the last ten years of his life, separated himself from his wife and children without any excuse. For a period precisely corresponding with this estrangement from his family, he maintained with the beneficiary an intimacy which must be found, in the euphemism of the law, to have been…